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The Da Vinci Code. The book sold over six million copies Translated into many other languages A major motion picture Mt.22:…29 A leading character in the book: “Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false”. I Preliminary Observations.

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– Bart Ehrman: “I liked ‘The Da Vinci Code’ as a work of fiction. But the thing that troubled me is that the fiction is allegedly based on historical fact. Dan Brown begins the book by laying out what he calls historical facts, and he includes the statement that all descriptions of art, architecture, sacred rituals, and documents are factual...most of the descriptions of ancient documents, in fact, are not factual—they’re part of his fiction. But people reading the book aren't equipped to separate the fact from the fiction”

1. Before Constantine, Christians understood Jesus to be human but not divine

Arius: Jesus was the first being created by God, and that there was a time when he didn't exist. The Council of Nicea discussed the issue and stated that Jesus was co-eternal, and shares the same essence as the Father

Teabing: the vote that Jesus was the Son of God was “a relatively close vote at that”

“The fallacy is thinking that these gospels give a more historically accurate view of Jesus than the New Testament gospels. I'm saying this not out of any religious conviction, but strictly on historical grounds—that statement is not true”—Bart Ehrman

“...contrary to recent popularizations, texts like those from Nag Hammadi never made it as far as the gray areas of debate over the canon; they were always far beyond the pale . . . the Great Church had substantially decided its canon of approved gospels no later than the early third century. Neither Constantine nor Athanasius had anything to do with these decisions”– Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels, p. 87

Brown’s handling of historical documents and history shows…“he is not merely out of his depth, he is also a purveyor of errors of both fact and interpretation, including some mistakes that even the most amateur student of history should never make” – Ben Witherington III